The Shamrock Transportation Company Has Four Terminals: A,B,C,and D

question 87

Essay

The Shamrock Transportation Company has four terminals: A,B,C,and D.At the start of a particular day,there are 8,8,6,and 3 tractors available at those terminals,respectively.During the previous night,trailers were loaded at plants R,S,T,and U.The number of trailers at each plant is 2,12,5,and 6,respectively.The company dispatcher has determined the distances between each terminal and each plant,as follows.How many tractors should be dispatched from each terminal to each plant in order to minimize the total number of miles traveled?

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Definitions:

MRP

Material Requirements Planning, a computer-based inventory management system designed to assist production planning and inventory control.

TPS

A kind of information system, the Transaction Processing System, focuses on the accumulation, storage, modification, and retrieval of transactional data from an organization.

Data Volumes

Refers to the size or amount of data, often measured in bytes, generated, processed, or stored by a system or application.

CRM

Stands for Customer Relationship Management, a technology for managing all your company's relationships and interactions with current and potential customers.